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Innovation and Economic Growth

Researchers today are trying to understand how information technology affects innovation, productivity, and economic growth while studying the impact of political and legal ground rules. Academics featured here are looking at the potential to create jobs and keep policymakers aware of emerging trends in technology.

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Lawrence Lessig
Harvard University
Innovation and Economic Growth, Intellectual Property, Copyright and Trademark

Bruce Kobayashi
George Mason University
Innovation and Economic Growth, Interoperability, Intellectual Property, Privacy and Security, Competition Policy and Antitrust

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AI and Speed

A report from Cornell Tech’s Speed Conference shares research in areas of autonomous vehicles, warfare, information security, labor and manufacturing, content moderation, and finance.

TAP Guest Blogger

November 30, 2018

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Fact Sheets

Health Information Technology

“Health Information Technology” or Health IT encompasses a wide range of hardware and software products used by patients, doctors, pharmacies, hospitals, insurers or other participants in the healthcare ecosystem to process and store data and communications related to health care.

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As facial-recognition technology grows, so does wariness about privacy. Use at a school in Seattle fuels debate.

"Those with unfettered access to your data, and especially those whose usage of your own data you cannot inquire about or limit, have power over you." — Alessandro Acquisti, Professor of Information Technology and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University

Alessandro Acquisti
The Seattle Times
September 28, 2018

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The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

Digital technologies such as robots and self-driving cars are advancing rapidly. These new technologies will bring profound benefits. However, companies will have less need for some kinds of workers, resulting in unemployment.

By: Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee

January 20, 2014

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